Please attend the parent meeting being held Sunday February 12th at 2:30 in Welcome's gym.

 

Coaches need to complete risk management ASAP and forward the confirmation email to Welcomerecsoccer@gmail.https://www.youthleaguesusa.com/ncysa/2010/RiskManagement.html

Email any questions concerning soccer to

welcomerecsoccer@gmail.com

 

Tag Team Scrimmage by Jeff Torres

Objective: To improve communication, teamwork and attacking/defending skills.

Age range: U8s and upwards.

Difficulty: Easy.

Set-up: Create an appropriate-size pitch for 3v3 or 4v4 play.

  • Divide your players into teams of three or four plus one extra player.

  • The extra players stand outside the pitch, near to the centre line.

  • Place spare balls around the outside of the pitch to keep the game flowing.


How to play:

If the ball goes out of play or if a goal is scored, the player that touched the ball last must leave the field of play, run around the goal she is trying to score in and tag her team's "extra" player (see picture below).

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When the extra player is tagged, she can join the game immediately.

The player that ran round the pitch is the new extra player.

Coaching notes: Play continues while this player exchange is occurring so, for a short time, one team will have a "numbers up" advantage.

Play two/three minutes games, with a different starting extra player each time.

Encourage the team gaining possession, when the ball goes out of play, to attack as quickly as possible while it has a numerical advantage.